Tank Stocking

[gemz]

Hello,
I have just upgraded from a 28L tank to a (not sure how many litres but its 2ft long x 1ft wide x 1ft tall)

I have 3 platies, 9 guppies, a bristlenose plec and a apple snail, also have few babies but hoping to get rid of them soon!

My question is how many more fish can I add and what type would u recommend?

Thank you in advance for help

x

 

[tribalbrit]

12 gallon or 57 litres. shoal of neons or cardinals 10 would look nice, 6 pygmy cory's.

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Hello,
I have just upgraded from a 28L tank to a (not sure how many litres but its 2ft long x 1ft wide x 1ft tall)

I have 3 platies, 9 guppies, a bristlenose plec and a apple snail, also have few babies but hoping to get rid of them soon!

My question is how many more fish can I add and what type would u recommend?

Thank you in advance for help

x

The fish you have already would stock a 125l decently, you have far too much for a 54l 60x30x30cm, before you have a population explosion... which will happen if you have babies already! Right now you have ~65cm of fish when they reach adult size (excluding babies), it is a very bad sign if the adult community fish length exceeds the volume in litres (~1cm of small streamlined fish per 2l is a decent guideline).

Bns are chunky and very messy fish, if given a suitable vegetarian diet they are giant poop machines that should typically reach 10-15cm depending on the species, a 125l with excellent filtration and regular poop vacuuming of the tank floor is needed.

 

[tribalbrit]

load of tosh!

 

[the_lock_man]

It's funny how people's opinions vary so much.

For what it's worth, my opinion lands somewhere in between Goat's and Tribalbrit's. I don't think that your current stock is ridiculous in a 54l tank, but I would recommend not getting any more fish at all. Sorry if that's not what you wanted to hear.